Rowman & Littlefield has announced a new partnership to provide e-books directly to the Douglas County Libraries (DCL) E-Book platform. Under terms of the deal, R&L will be provide its e-books at a flat discount directly to the library, which will then own, and host the e-books on its own system for e-book lending.

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Rowman & Littlefield v-p of marketing Linda May said the publisher was excited to be breaking new ground with the Douglas County Libraries. “There are several other libraries and library systems interested in buying e-books directly from us to load on their own platforms,” she noted, “but Douglas County is the only public library so far. They have been in the forefront of this movement and we expect to learn a lot from the partnership.”

Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.